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Filmography

The Libido Factor - ( Director / / Announced / )
The Mighty - ( Driver / 1998 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Signs of Life - ( Director / 1989 / Released / )
The Cotton Club - ( Assistant Editor / 1984 / Released / K-Tel Video )
TV Credits
New Amsterdam ( 2008 / Released ): Co-Executive Producer / Director
Love Hurts ( 2008 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

Reclassified ( 2008 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

Legacy ( 2008 )
TV Episode Director

Legacy ( 2008 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

Keep the Change ( 2008 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

(4 more)
Damages ( 2007 / Released ): Director
3 Lbs. ( 2006 / Released ): Co-Executive Producer / Director
Heart-Stopping ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

Heart-Stopping ( 2006 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

Of Two Minds ( 2006 )
TV Episode Co-Executive Producer

Saved ( 2006 / Released ): Director
Tango ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

Triage ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

The Lady and the Tiger ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

Thief ( 2006 / Released ): Director / Producer
In the Wind ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

In the Wind ( 2006 )
TV Episode Producer

Flight ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

Flight ( 2006 )
TV Episode Producer

No Direction Home ( 2006 )
TV Episode Producer

(3 more)
Grey's Anatomy ( 2005 / Released ): Director
Desperate Housewives ( 2004 / Released ): Director
Jack & Bobby ( 2004 / Released ): Director
Karen Sisco ( 2003 / Released ): Director
Keen Eddie ( 2003 / Released ): Director
The American Embassy ( 2002 / Released ): Director
Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 2001 / Released ): Director
Dramma Giocoso ( 2006 )
TV Episode Director

Enemy Within ( 2001 )
TV Episode Director

Songs in Ordinary Time ( 2000 / Released ): Producer
Wonderland ( 2000 / Released ): Co-Executive Producer / Director
The West Wing ( 1999 / Released ): Director
Life on Mars ( 2003 )
TV Episode Director

Arctic Radar ( 2002 )
TV Episode Director

Maximum Bob ( 1998 / Released ): Director
Sex and the City ( 1998 / Released ): Director
Cover Girl ( 2002 )
TV Episode Director

Luck Be an Old Lady ( 2002 )
TV Episode Director

sex and another city ( 2000 )
TV Episode Director

escape from new york ( 2000 )
TV Episode Director

the cheating curve ( 1999 )
TV Episode Director

(1 more)
Feds ( 1997 / Released ): Director
Nothing Sacred ( 1997 / Released ): Director
Friends at Last ( 1995 / Released ): Director
New York News ( 1995 / Released ): Director
Philly Heat ( 1995 / Released ): Director
Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story ( 1994 / Released ): Director
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane and Company ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Going to Extremes ( 1992 / Released ): Director
The Good Fight ( 1992 / Released ): Director
Darrow ( 1991 / Released ): Director
Law & Order ( 1990 / Released ): Director
Rising Son ( 1990 / Released ): Director
Hellfire ( 1985 / Released ): Director
Birdland ( Released ): Director
I'll Fly Away ( Released ): Director
Full Biography (Back to top)


Profession(s):
director, editor
Sometimes Credited As:
John David Coles
Michael J Bateman

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Education
Amherst College BA
Herbert Berghof Studio New York, New York acting and directing
Awards (Back to top)
USA Film Festival Award Special Director's Award "Hellfire" 1985

Milestones (Back to top)
1990 Directed first feature, "Signs of Life"
1985 Directed first PBS fiction film, "Hellfire"
1984 Directed episodes of TV series, "Tales From the Dark Side"
Directed, shot and edited first short in 16mm while still in high school, "Casablanca"
Directed documentary about Amherst while in college aired on PBS
Worked as assistant editor to Francis Ford Coppola
Directed industrial films for AT&T and Pepsi-Cola
TV debut with shorts for NBC's "Saturday Night Live"
Directed first music video, Billy Joel's "Big Shot"
Director for Wynn Handman Acting Studio, adjunct of American Place Theatre; director off-Broadway

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